Packing-form



c A. B'. KELLERMAN.

PACKING FORM.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25 1915.

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PACKING-FORM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

Application filed June 25, 1915. Serial No. 36,188.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Anonr B. KEL ERMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing-Forms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a packing form,

and one of the objects of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device intended'to be inserted within a coat or other garment, to hold the same in its proper shape in transportation.

Another object is to provide a device of the kind referred to which is provided with means for maintaining the bust portions of the garment in proper shape, and. with other means for preventing the shifting or slipping of the garment in its box during transportation, so that the nether portions of the garment will not be collapsed and wrinkled or creased.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a device securing the objectsset out above which may be economically manufactured from cardboard or other suitable fiat stock, which may be shipped in the fiat, and which is easily manipulated to give it its final form.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less broad than those stated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in part obvious and in part specifically referred to in the courseof the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as a part of this specification,

and in which I have shown a merely preferred form of embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank as it appears in the flat; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same after it has been manipulated into its finished form; Fig. 3 is an edge view, the subject-matter of Fig. '1; Fig. 4 shows the device of Fig. 2 as applied Referring to the numerals on the drawings, there is shown at 6 a generally oblong 'sheet which may be of cardboard, thin sheet metal, celluloid, or the like suitable flexible material, provided at one end with an aperture 7, and slitted as at 8 and 9 to form two side wings 10 and a main or body portion 11. These side wings 10 are provided at thelr lower ends with interengaging portions, for instance a notch 12 on the one adapted. to be engaged by a tongue 'lt on the other, and the body portion 11 is-intended to form an integral tail-piece 15. For purposes of shipping, the devices may be left in the fiat, as in Fig. 1, and when they are to be used they are manipulated by bending the two side wings 10 to the position shown in Fig. 2, with the tongueof the one entered into the slot of the other,

in which condition the device will be bulged out and. given the proper fullness so that it may, when inserted into a garment, as shown in Figs. t and 5, maintain the bust-portions thereof in proper relation. The tail-piece 15 is surrounded by the skirt portion of the garment, and when the packing form, with the garment thereon, is placed in a box (indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 4 and 5), the tail-piece 15.will prevent the collapsing of the garment within'th'e box, and so avoid crushing, wrinkling or creasing of the skirt .or tail-portions of the garment. The aperture 7 may be utilized for suspending the packing form, with a garment on it, from a hook or the like in clothes hanger.

Inasmuch as many changes could bemade in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is'intended that all matter contained in the above de-' scription or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It isalso to be understood that the lanplace of the ordinary guage used in the following claim is tended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention Which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim: i

A packing form made of a single piece of flexible material of generally oblong'form consisting of a bust piece, a body portion and askirt piece, the body portion having 1C incisions along its sides to provide side arms,

said side arms adapted to be overlapped and interlocked With each other over the body portion thereby shaping the bust piece While the said body portion and skirt piece re- 15 

